Lixian Huang
Oct 18th. 2015
Week 5 Blog
ASA 2, A03
What Darrel Y. Hamamoto mentions in “Empire of
Death and the Plague of Civic Violence” mainly agrees with my previous study
about killers and psychopaths. For years, I have read so many articles and
watched so many videos about analyzing cases of killers who killed more than
fifteen people. I found that most of such killers had a dark or abnormal childhood—they
were either victims of irresponsible raiser who could be one or more of parents,
grandparents or relatives who addicted to alcohol, gambol, drugs, beaten kids,
etc. or they had been exposed to the antisocial thoughts or “unhealthy” stories
in their early ages, as mentioned in Hamamoto’s article, the Ramirez’s case
where his cousin Miguel shared tons of murdering and raping stories with
Ramirez that led to the “infinite excitement gained by holding the power of life
and death over others”. According to my previous study, many of the serial
killers or mass murders were appeared NORMAL: they could be nice neighbors,
outstanding scientists, beneficent elderly, and so forth, which might against
people’s thoughts that psychopaths always act abnormal. Hamamoto also describes
a case of killer Kerrey who used to be awarded Congressional Medal of Honor,
even became a president of a school. Such background matches my study. I used
to conclude that it is the normal or outstanding social position that shields
those killers from being arrested. Hamamoto relates many killing to the effect
of Vietnam War. I agree that wars can reshape a person and sometimes take his
or her mercy away. In the McVeigh cases, I found the man actually ENJOYED
killing, such situation a also happened in Wuornos’ case where he mentioned
that he felt pity about could not kill any more. What I learned from categorizing
killing cases, some serial killers are actually “hunters”, which also addressed
by Hamamoto. Races, sexual preferences and jobs can be specific reasons why
victims were targeted.
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